July 10, 2025 is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, commemorating how far into the year that Black women need to work to earn what white, non-Hispanic men made in the previous year.

July 10, 2025 is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, commemorating how far into the year that Black women need to work to earn what white, non-Hispanic men made in the previous year.
Understanding the EEOC’s essential role, its history, and the continued importance of its work is more critical than ever, especially in a political moment where the Trump administration is aggressively questioning its merit and dismantling longstanding civil rights enforcement tools.
Dear Working Women: We are under attack. Across the country, extremist politicians and corporate billionaires are working to eliminate hard won protections for working women. The 75 Million campaign will hold policy makers accountable as they block policies that support working women.
Americans are witnessing in real-time a full-throated assault on freedom and democracy, perhaps the most aggressive roll-back of civil rights protections in generations. Using loosely defined notions of “government efficiency,” Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their new...
The Trump administration is wrecking the economy – and women know it. During the last nearly 50 years, women have never felt worse about how the government is handling the economy than they do under Trump and unemployment rates for Black women and veteran women are climbing.
Even if retirement feels out of reach, younger Americans can’t afford to ignore the GOP’s coordinated effort to sabotage Social Security from the inside out.
Today’s Jobs Report showed continued growth, but with the newly announced tariffs on “Liberation Day” chances of a recession are growing
For the first time in 20 years, the gender wage gap widened. Rather than focusing on policies that would help narrow the gender wage gap, the Trump Administration cut a ten-year-old protection that helps workers discover pay discrimination.
Women’s share of the veterans’ workforce is at an all-time high – but President Trump and Elon Musk’s attacks on veterans and service members threatens their employment prospects and economic security.
Monthly jobs data shows continuing economic growth, but other warning signs are flashing of an economy on the brink of slowing down
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released annual data about disabled people in the U.S. workforce showing a continued upward trend through 2024. However, inequities remain for disabled people, particularly disabled women and disabled people of color, and threats from the Trump administration could threaten this progress.
Black History Month is a reminder that economic disparities for Black women have a deeply rooted history that we haven’t yet addressed – and are poised to worsen under Trump administration attacks
Today’s release of union data showed women of color and part-time workers led the gains in union membership growth in 2024. Asian women see the largest increase in union membership rates, despite little change in overall share of union membership.
The gender wage gap, a key metric used to assess progress towards gender equality in the workplace, grew significantly last year, marking the first time since 2003 that the wage gap grew.
New year, new jobs data. Today, the first jobs report of 2025 gives us a comprehensive picture of how workers fared in the economy in all of 2024. Overall, many macroeconomic indicators – unemployment, jobs added and earnings – remained robust through the end of 2024.
Today’s jobs data show another steady month of job growth, but increasing unemployment for Black women is a warning sign – and there are major risks ahead.
Black women have long shaped beauty standards, yet they face significant inequities within the beauty industry, often being underpaid and underappreciated compared to their non-Black counterparts. Despite their role in driving trends and cultivating engaged communities, Black influencers are consistently offered lower pay and fewer opportunities, exposing a stark pay gap rooted in broader systemic issues of racism and sexism.
Equal pay is one marker of the multitude of inequalities Native women face. We are a young democracy as an American government that can still learn from the values of its Indigenous people who cultivated and cared for this land since time immemorial, sustaining it for generations to come.
It’s the first Friday of the month, which means we’re analyzing new labor market data! While some of today’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Jobs Report metrics were hampered by hurricanes and depressed by strike activity, the unemployment survey shows a strong, stable economy for women.
Every October, we recognize National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) to celebrate the value and talent disabled workers add to America’s workplaces and economy. This year’s theme, “Access to Good Jobs for All,” highlights the importance of ensuring good, quality jobs for everyone who can or wants to work – including disabled workers. That must include disabled women.